Brian Eno, cont'd >

> Q: Why do you think you should be paying more #tax?
>> BRIAN: I would like to live in a pleasant, comfortable #society, and to do that means you have to reduce the number of #poor people....I don't like the thought that half of the population are struggling, and I don't think there's any need that they they should be struggling. There are plenty of people that are quite well-off like me who would be happy to share their #money a little bit more than they do.
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> Q: What's your message to....#millionaires or #billionaires, you know, people like #ElonMusk who obviously don't think the same way you do and think that they should...be allowed to accumulate their #wealth into the billions and billions of pounds? What would your message be for those people?

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>> BRIAN: It's obvious to me that there's a feedback loop involved in #wealth, which to say if you get a little bit #rich, you are very likely to get richer. It works the other way 'round with #poverty - if you get poor, you’re very likely to get poorer, so those things are not self-correcting...it doesn't work. There's not the #TrickleDownTheory that people used to believe in...that it's good for people to get rich 'cuz that money gets dispersed among poorer people so it helps them.

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>> BRIAN (cont'd): ...But it isn't what happens - the rich accumulate more and more #wealth. It doesn't trickle down to anybody, it trickles up actually.

> Q: #Labor have obviously been very, very reluctant to speak about a wealth #tax because they say that it might drive wealth creators or #business people out of the country. Do you agree with that assessment?

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>> BRIAN: I don't think that's true. I think some people will leave 'cuz there are some people who are mean-minded to the extent that they would rather go and live in some shithole country than pay an extra few thousand quid a year rent. So, there are those people. Frankly I'd be bloody pleased if they fucked off and went and lived there. Excuse my language, but rich people really piss me off a little bit because it's so small-minded...>>